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Open to submissions of creative nonfiction and visual art. We believe in the power of art and literature as form of resistance.

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The "Mars Needs Bacon" sticker always cracks me up!
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VENDOR POP-UP this Sat., Oct. 25, 2025!!! Mayhempalooza 2025 at Mayhem Comics and Games, Des Moines!

"Cryptids, Kaiju & Corn"!

Plus ... new sticker designs featuring Big-hearted Bigfoots ("Bigfeet"?), Zombies of the Corn, and Hog-abducting Aliens!!!

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October 23, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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I have a flash fiction in this chillacious issue. ☠️
October 23, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Thrilled to have a dark fairy tale flash in the new “Bloody Bones” issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social! Thank you to editor John T. Leonard. Can’t wait to read the whole issue! 🖤🐦‍⬛☠️

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Kathryn Kulpa
Kathryn Kulpa Volitation A girl leaves her snug stone house on the edge of the woods to visit her grandmother. Hurry, her mother tells her, as she packs a basket with bread and wine. Be home before…
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October 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Beyond thrilled to have my short story, Final Form, published in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social's Bloody Bones Special Issue #1.

Huge thanks to John and the editorial team for such an amazing publishing experience!

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Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones – Special Issue #1
RAWHEAD Presents: BLOODY BONES Special Issue #1 / Fall 2025 Cover by Alex Leigh Farber Editor’s Note Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Visual Art Poetry Evelyn Lee3 Poems Amy Kesegich1 Poem John Sara…
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October 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Honoured to have two new poems out today in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social 's 'Bloody Bones' Special Issue #1.

My thanks to EIC John T. Leonard for including my work alongside many wonderful writers 🔥

I attach "Reliable Narrator".

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Reliable Narrator It is in the telling as much as the young mother stitching the fabric of a story to her child’s name. Fathers debate what makes the collection acceptable. That it must row itself cooly towards a lesser grief. My mentor coins the narrative a slow breakup. The complimentary flowers on the motel bed where the beloved betrayed every Sunday. Where faith doesn’t come easy to a preacher. Because poems possess—part angel or animal. What approaches, soon backs away into rearview —tinted and broken. On the wrong highway, you imagine skin around the found bones. The poems honour — they cloak and embalm, filter toxins and perfume the dying. A river is never far from a casualty, and pages lily and lantern, but refuse to float in one place. Because the current keeps moving with your tongue, lapping as language and dragonfly burr, the arabesque of a manuscript keeps the reader from drowning. It’s how we hear through whiplash and sirens—the opaline lake and its dropped oar; the body’s duty replaying the nectar of this world.
October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Proud to have a spooky war poem included in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social's debut "Bloody Bones" special issue!

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New War Poem in Rawhead's "Bloody Bones" Special!
A new poem by Global War on Terror (GWOT) writer and U.S. Army veteran Randy “Sherpa” Brown , author of the award-winning 2015 poetry colle...
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October 22, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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New issue available! Check it out.

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#rawheadjournal #halloweenissue #horrorwriting #scifi #fantasywriting #litmag #newissue #poetry #cnf #flashfiction #shortstories #visualart
October 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Thank you @rawheadjournal.bsky.social for publishing my weird Poe poem in your special Halloween issue, Bloody Bones. Not often that a dramatic monologue finds a home. Check out the whole issue!

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Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones – Special Issue #1
RAWHEAD Presents: BLOODY BONES Special Issue #1 / Fall 2025 Cover by Alex Leigh Farber Editor’s Note Poetry Fiction Nonfiction Visual Art Poetry Evelyn Lee3 Poems Amy Kesegich1 Poem John Sara…
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October 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Special Issue coming very soon!
October 8, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Featuring a powerful piece of flash fiction today by @andreamarcusa.bsky.social from Issue One of Rawhead. Check it out!

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#andreamarcusa #rawheadjournal #flashfiction #shortfiction #flashfictionwriters
October 6, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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September 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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mtheriaultsf.bsky.social
A closet rod becomes a mode of communication and an element of power in my story Her Delight, out now in @rawheadjournal.bsky.social. My thanks to John T. Leonard and the editorial crew, and my greetings and congratulations to my fellow contributors.

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In a half-dark closet clothing is hung in a tight array of wire and plastic hangers.
September 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Many thanks to the editors of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social for including my poem 6/25/25 in their first issue.

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Darren Demaree
Darren C. Demaree 6/25/25There’s no comfortin the unassailable truththat America is Deathcome to conduct an exitthrough the brittle grassof humanity’s desirefor an end that resemblesa television sh…
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September 24, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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karenschauber.bsky.social
Delighted to have my flash fiction “Just Another Monday” published in the inaugural Issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social Journal. Thank you to Editor-in-Chief, JohnT Leonard .

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#flashfiction #flashlit #microfiction
September 24, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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jackbedell.bsky.social
Really stoked to have a flash CNF essay from my Fight Nights series in the debut issue of @rawheadjournal.bsky.social 🥊👇🏻 https://rawheadjournal.org/issue-one/jack-b-bedell/
Jack B. Bedell
Jack B. Bedell A Beating Is Rarely the Worst Thing You Can Get It was never something he’d cared about before, so I was a little shocked when my son came in the other night wanting to know the wors…
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September 24, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Issue One of Rawhead is live!
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#litmag #artandlit #rawheadjournal #newwriting #issueone #writingcommunity #artcommunity
September 24, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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The inaugural issue of Rawhead releases September 24th. It’s an ambitious release in size and scope and I’m grateful to all of our contributors and volunteers for their hard work. Look for it online next Wednesday! - John

#rawheadjournal #artandliterature #newlitmag #poetry #prose #art #issueone
September 19, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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We’re accepting visual art, poetry, and prose of the horror, fantasy, sci-fi, and speculative variety for Rawhead Presents: Bloody Bones — Special Issue #1. #rawheadjournal #artsubmissions #spookyissue #poetry #prose #litmag #opentosubmissions

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September 6, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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We’re currently accepting applications of journal volunteers for multiple positions!

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August 7, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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July 22, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Very excited to have three micro pieces, "Let the Apples Fall," "Lucky Strike," and "Summer of '76, or Boil Boil Toil n Trouble," accepted for Spring '26 publication at @rawheadjournal.bsky.social. Always feels great when a pub gets your work.
July 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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July 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM